- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:19:27 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
A web development tool known as Zope, which integrates a number of products from Digital Creations, has recently been released to the public (http://www.zope.org/), apparently under a licence that permits open development under certain conditions. Besides providing a scripting language and support for data bases, it appears to be more of a site management tool than a web authoring package, with all transactions conducted via the web. I am not sure how accessible this software is in its own right, especially when used with text-based browsers. I have written to the developers to affirm the importance of universal design in this regard. What is interesting to consider, however, would be the ways in which such a tool could facilitate accessibility, even though it is not an HTML/SGML/XML editor. One suggestion which I mentioned in my e-mail to the developers was that an option could be integrated into the software that would run an HTML validator (or perhaps even an evaluation tool such as Bobby) when a document is submitted, and report errors.
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